There are Strathmore Bagels all over Long Island, so let’s be specific: the one on Lakeland Avenue in Ronkonkoma is the flagship — the one with the weekend line out the door and the reviews to back it up.

Get a bialy, get a bagel with whitefish, get the coffee from the counter. It’s a bagel shop doing bagel-shop things very well — which on Long Island is the whole ballgame.